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The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#abstract art #ambiguities #art #childhood #cubism

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#god #shroud #symbolize #veils

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life. ↗

— Russell Banks

#become #honest #imaginative #intelligent #life

There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#answers #apply #frontiers #lessons #new

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. ↗

— Bernard Berenson

#busy #corner #could #hand #hat

I thrive on production. It feels very much like a natural environment for me. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#feels #i #like #me #much

I thrive off the company of others, I love being sociable. ↗

— David Walliams

#company #i #i love #love #off

I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure. ↗

— John Woolman

#diversions #flock #going #greatest #greatest pleasure